DoD Instruction 8551.01 – Ports, Protocols, and Services Management (PPSM)

DoD Instruction 8551.01 - Ports, Protocols, and Services Management (PPSM)

DoD Instruction 8551.01 Ports, Protocols, and Services Management (PPSM) standardizes procedures to catalog, regulate, and control the use and management of protocols in the Internet protocol suite, and associated ports (also known as protocols, data services, and associated ports or ports, protocols, and services); also referred to as PPS on DoD information networks (DODIN) including the connected information systems, platform information technology (IT) systems, platform IT (PIT), and products based on the potential that unregulated PPSM can damage DoD operations and interests and applies to all PPS used throughout planned, newly developed, acquired, and existing DODIN (whether used internal or external to the enclave), which include DoD Information Technology (IT).